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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, not only is the draft Constitution far from being ideal, it is also far from being the compromise it could have been. Those in favour of a Constitution and a better European Constitution would do best to reject this draft, as I am in no doubt that a subsequent one would be an improvement. The members of Self-Defence will vote in favour of Amendment No 102, an extremely important amendment by Mr Bonde to which I have put my own name.
The democratic deficit would be increased if national parliamentary competences were to be handed over not to the democratically elected European Parliament, but to the unelected European Commission, and this would be most undesirable. It would also be undesirable to abandon the principle of ‘one country, one Commissioner’. Yet it would be a good idea to hand back to the nation states all matters which are not in actual fact of supra-national importance, and more freedom and less centralism is a good principle to follow. In conclusion, I should like to say that the members of Self-Defence are open to the idea of an EU Constitution. We do not reject it as such, but we cannot vote in favour of the motion for a resolution as it stands. We have doubts, and these doubts are shared by millions of inhabitants of the EU’s Member States. Yet we are open to dialogue, as this is what the millions of inhabitants of our countries want. We will therefore abstain from voting in the final vote."@en1
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